by TH | Mar 1, 2023 | Contemplation
Happy Lent! I know it’s been a while since I’ve blogged, but I wanted to share this meditation as we enter the 2nd Sunday of Lent. I recently heard a sermon from Fr. Jeremiah, a Friar (Catholic monk), who was talking about whether I can trust God and has...
by TH | Apr 24, 2022 | Contemplation
During this past week of Holy Week, the movie The Passion of The Christ came up, and today I woke up thinking about the word passion because I’ve been leading a group therapy based on Dr. Kristin Neff’s Mindful Self-Compassion, which is not the point of...
by TH | Apr 15, 2022 | Contemplation, Theology
Today was the last day of Lent, and tomorrow we start Holy Week with Lazarus Saturday. The Church begins Holy week, a.k.a. Holy Pascha, with resurrection and ends with resurrection. Although, the commemoration of raising Lazarus from the dead is actually on another...
by TH | Aug 14, 2020 | Contemplation
This letter from St. Kyrillos VI is phenomenal; I shared it before in parts back when I had Instagram and decided to record it. It was “written in March 1928 in the first year of his monastic life. It demonstrates his long and deep experience in the practice of...
by TH | Aug 12, 2020 | Contemplation, Psychology
I’ve been sick at home the past few days, so I’ve had time to write, and I was thinking, there are so many “talks” nowadays. Go to church every Sunday, and there’s a sermon after the reading of the Gospel. Then add to that youth meeting,...
by TH | Aug 7, 2020 | Contemplation, Theology
Yesterday’s post reminded Bishop Basil of a section in the Way of the Pilgrim. An elder teaches the pilgrim how to confess, and he says, “I don’t love God & I don’t love neighbor” and then gives a lengthy explanation of why both...
